By Ronron
November 30, 2007
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is preparing charges of rebellion and other related, lesser charges against the 50 persons apprehended for taking over the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati City last Thursday.
Sr. Supt. Rolando Añonuevo, deputy chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), told a news conference yesterday that the 50, led by former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, Jr., Army Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, Bishop Julio Labayen, and Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, were already transferred to the PNP headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City past 5am yesterday from the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) in Taguig City.
But past 1pm, Labayen was released from the highly-secured PNP Custodial Center where they were taken as they await the formal filing of charges against them before the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Marius Corpus had said in the news conference that Labayen was to be turned over to the custody of another Catholic bishop in consideration of his old age and out of respect to his position in the church.
A list of the detainees released by Añonuevo bared the following names also:
* perceived from the civilian sector:
1) Fr. Robert Reyes,
2)Atty. JV Bautista,
3)Atty. Argee Guevarra,
4)Herman Laurel,
5)Leonido Toledo, Jr.,
6)Evangeline Mendoza,
7)Jose Albert,
8)Eduardo Castro,
9)Ferdinand Sandoval,
10)Myrna Buendia,
11)Julio Ancheta,
12)Estrella Guingona,
13)Dominador Ireneo Rull, Jr.,
14)Maamor Lanto,
15)Romeo Solis,
16)Romeo Dacles,
17)Roel Gaduin,
18)Rhonmel Rivero,
19)Franciso Nemenzo (former UP President),
20)Julian Advincula,
21)Leodor dela Cruz,
22)Sonny Madarang,
23)Elizabeth Orteza Siguion Reyna,
24)Francisco Penaflor,
25)Ryan Custodio,
26)Atty. Elsid Fajardo,
27)Antonio Trillanes III,
28)Edgardo Tulaylay, and,
29)Rey Linaac.
* accused at the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 148:
1)1Lt Billy Pascua,
2)Lt. SG Andy Torrato,
3)Lt. SG Manuel Cabuchan,
4)Lt. SG Eugene Gonzales,
5)Lt. SG James Layug,
6)Capt. Segundino Orfiano
7)1Lt. Jonnel Sanggalang
8)Capt. Gary Alejano
9)Lt. JG Arturo Pascua, Jr.
10)Ensign Armand Pontejos
11)Julius Mesa (discharged EP)
12)Cezari Yassir Gonzales (discharged EP)
* other members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
1)Sgt. Francisco Bosi (Marines)
2)Cpl. Clecarte Dahan
3)PFC Juanito Jilbury
4)PFC Emmanuel Tirador
5)PFC German Linde
Recovered from the apprehended persons and at the hotel were one caliber 45, three M16 rifles, two M14 rifles, one Galil rifle, and two grenades, Añonuevo said.
He said the said items are still being checked if these are issued to the soldiers, and if any of those were fired during the five-hour takeover.
Añonuevo said the inquest proceedings may be done either late Friday or morning of Saturday at Camp Crame, saying they were given the assurance that a DOJ special panel has been created for said incident.
“The charge will depend on their participation. We will find out their complicity so it could range from the gravest of rebellion to some other lesser offenses,” PNP chief Gen. Avelino Razon, Jr. said in the same news conference held at Camp Crame.
The case of rebellion is based on the calls made by Lim and Trillanes for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to step down as they also invited people to mass up in Makati City to effect regime change.
Earlier, Razon said it has taken in a total of 101 persons, including the 51 media personalities, for identification authentication process at the NCRPO headquarters immediately after the takeover ended.
Yesterday, he said four more are being accounted for, including Marine Captain Nicanor Faeldon, one of the accused at the Makati RTC, who was among those who walked out from the hearing of their case and marched towards Ayala Avenue.
Razon said the three others compose of one who is a suspected member of the military, and two who are not definitely known if civilians or members of the uniformed service.
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, Jr. told a separate interview in Camp Aguinaldo that the one who is a suspected member of the military was the person who wore a wig and an Army Scout Ranger black uniform while standing behind Lim during the latter’s press conference at the hotel at around noon.
“Our men know him. He is retired. We know his name,” Esperon said.
Faeldon, a core leader of the group, had earlier escaped from detention in December 2005 until January 2006.
Asked to describe Faeldon, Razon said: “We will assume he is armed and dangerous.”
To the same question, Esperon said: “He can do some foolish things so there will be no let up in the manhunt for him.”
Razon said a combined team from the CIDG, the intelligence community, and the AFP are now hunting Faeldon and the three others.
In a statement, Faeldon’s lawyer, Trixie Angeles, confirmed that Faeldon was among the 13 accused who walked out from the sala of Makati Judge Oscar Pimentel at around 10:30 am Thursday.
“However, after he had been interviewed en route to the hotel and at the hotel, he has not been heard of since… Nearly 24 hours later, however, he had not been seen nor heard from,” Angeles said.
“He had last informed his counsel that he was returning to the Marine Brig,” she added.
Angeles appealed to the AFP leadership to observe and respect Faeldon’s rights if the latter is currently in its custody.
Angeles is not discounting this possibility because when Faeldon returned to the custody of the AFP in January 2006, “he was isolated and maltreated.”
“He refused to disseminate information about the torture however, to prevent panic among his supporters,” she said.
Esperon said that aside from Faeldon, no other from the AFP is unaccounted for./DMS
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